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  • In Madam Opera’s Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls the only room large enough for harundo was the dining hall.

    Excerpt: Foundling by D Cornish 2006

  • Unfortunately, when it was time to practice harundo, there was no escaping him.

    Excerpt: Foundling by D Cornish 2006

  • Italians call _canna di palude_; smaller than _harundo_ (_Arundo donax_, the Greek [Greek: kanna] and Italian canna), it nevertheless often reaches a height of 6 or 7 feet '.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Quia enim intellego, 50 duae unum expetitis palumbem, [3] perii harundo alas verberat. non ego istuc facinus mihi, mulier, conducibile esse arbitror.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Taenarias etiam fauces, alta ostia Ditis, et caligantem nigra formidine lucum ingressus, manisque adiit regemque tremendum10 nesciaque humanis precibus mansuescere corda. at cantu commotae Erebi de sedibus imis umbrae ibant tenues simulacraque luce carentum, quam multa in foliis auium se milia condunt, uesper ubi aut hibernus agit de montibus imber, 15 matres atque uiri defunctaque corpora uita magnanimum heroum, pueri innuptaeque puellae, impositique rogis iuuenes ante ora parentum, quos circum limus niger et deformis harundo

    Orpheus and Eurydice Vergil 1912

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